Thursday, August 7, 2008

Aikido - the way of unifying life energy


Half year ago, I went back to my hometown in my vacation. There, i have a friend name's David. He was the one who taught me about what aikido&BJJ is. He learn aikido himself, and due to that, i joined aikido in my vacation.

The Dojo i joined was seiki dojo. It wasn't only go through aikido, but also the combine of jujitsu and other martial arts too. When the first time i joined, it feels prosaic cause of the basic i have in other martial arts.

But, after some weeks, It became strict. Not only we had to enhanced our stamina, but also the technic become more and more ooze and complicated. Now that i know, aikido isn't as plain as people talked about.

Aikido is performed by blending with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it head-on. Founder of Aikido is Morihei Ueshiba A.K.A. Oshensei.
It containes the basic tech as:
-First-Fifth technic (ikkyo-gokyo)
-4 direction throw (shihonage)
-forearm return (kotegaeshi)
-Breath throw (kokyunage)
-Entering throw (iriminage)
-Heaven and earth throw (techinage)
-Hip throw (koshinage)
-Figure-ten throw (jujinage)
-Rotary throw (kaitennage)

learning aikido was not as easy as it seems. Be careful, althought seems to be soft, it can really hurt people

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